I took a bit of a trip upriver this morning, and got as far as Georges Junction. Things up that way are looking pretty and green again, after a year of nearly normal rainfall. You can see if you look carefully that there is plenty of water in the river.
Staying with friends near Aspe and this is the view from the front of their villa. All I see is the Viticulture player boards.
Yeah, I like the before picture better.
It’s the lighting.
This is Shoshone Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the US, and this is what it looks like right now. It seems like an apt metaphor for my energy levels after this year of teaching.
I’ve probably posted a different view of Mount Klotz before.
This is about 2 km from where I live now. I used to work in that building (4th floor with view and audio of the emergency heli landing pad next door–that thing is loud). And I was born in one of the hospitals that are behind the “hill”–weirdly so was my partner. I used to play in the playgrounds just a couple 100m to the left of this photo when I was 1 and 2 years old. I must have met my partner at some point because we lived in the same part of town at that age and he is just a few months younger than me.
I love traveling and in many places I speculate what it would be like living there. But in the end… I always return here.
And I like nothing quite as much as getting on my bike when the sun is out like today and going to some of “my” places to run some errands. And this isn’t even the pandemic speaking. The first few spring days every year that let me get out in the sun are just the most amazing…
The road to my brother’s house, by Parrabel Creek:
Don’t attempt to drive through floodwater: there might not be a road there any more.
That was a road? Do you have any before pictures?
Not a sealed road, but yes. It is Toorumbee Creek Road.
I don’t have a picture from before the flood, but I do have one that shows part of the road that did not wash away:
That’s all pretty remote. It’s what we call “bush”. Up around here: https://goo.gl/maps/g23kU7m164tMLwfC6
Calling that a road… requires a bit of imagination 
Is it the only access? So how does your brother get to places now? Australia is not a small place, I assume doing errands etc on foot is not an option. How long is it going to take to repair the road? Is it going to be repaired? I am a city dweller… I know nothing…
He stays at his son’s house in town.
The weather is still glorious, and today I visited the new Royal Horticultural Society gardens near Salford:
Is it glorious?
The gardens were lovely. The list of plants that I would like to grow, but cannot feasibly fit in my garden, has increased significantly.
So gardening is like board games in that respect?
Yes, but with the added challenge of making sure that plants on my “shelf of shame” don’t die before I find somewhere to plant them.
